Brahma's one great public festival is a bathing day. Through the month of Kartik, from the eleventh day of the bright fortnight to the full moon, Pushkar fills with pilgrims and with traders in camels and cattle; the fair is said to be held in Brahma's honour because his temple stands here. On the full-moon morning the crowd goes down to the lake, whose waters on that day are believed to bring salvation, and the devout walk the round of the three Pushkar lakes. Across the rest of India the same full moon is Tripuri Purnima or Dev Deepavali, kept for Shiva's victory over Tripurasura, and the temple page records that the bathing day draws thousands to its own rituals while the camel fair runs alongside.
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Three Pallava shrines on one platform: Shiva in the centre, Vishnu on the right, and a disputed left shrine read as Brahma by Vogel but as Subrahmanya or Brahmasasta by later scholars; a Durga panel stands beside.
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A golden egg forms in the waters and glows like the sun.
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